My favorite designer chair is probably the simple Eames fiberglass armchair rocker. pretty generic from a designer's standpoint. but the history of the piece and what it's done for furniture design is far reaching.

The Bone Chair by Ross Lovegrove is one of my favorite art/exploration chairs. The forms on it are amazing and I love how it breaks a chair down to it's most essential elements.

I also love the Eames chairs just by virtue of the working processes they developed and what it meant for ID.Lovegrove's chairs look nice on the screen but then don't work well in reality.I don't like all of Philippe Starck's playful designs but I do like most of his chairs, and they are excellent.Travelling through France's cities' is basically a living Starck chair exhibition

My favorites are the Eros chair:

Louis Ghost:

Bubble Club (surprisingly comfortable)

Broom chair:It is made of wood-plastic composites, a great material innovation combining wood waste chips with polymers.

To pick a favorite is hard. Morrison, BarberOsgerby, Grcic, Fukasawa and the Bouroullecs have between them designed so many iconic ones.And that just the contemporary designers.I got a soft spot for Maruni, Arper and Vitra.

But a chair that I have always liked a lot due to its details is the Colander Chair by Patrick Norguet, manufactured by Kristalia.I just think its near perfect in construction and proportion.I saw a Wood seat version in Milan this year which was gorgeous and gave me serious Prouvé vibes.

Brian_Donlin wrote:There are so many.... Jasper Morrison's Air Chair (specifically the one with armrests) is a favorite of mine. To those who mentioned it earlier--the "story," I believe, is just that it utilizes gas injection molding (different from regular injection molding), which was new manufacturing technology at the time.